Performers

The award-winning East London Brass Band raise the roof of St Luke’s with works by Ireland pupils Helen Perkin, Benjamin Britten and Alan Bush, brand new transcriptions by Phillip Littlemore and Ireland’s two original brass band classics, ‘Comedy Overture’ and ‘A Downland Suite’.

They are joined by the Addison Singers for a revival of ‘Man in his Labour Rejoiceth’ – a choral song with brass accompaniment dedicated to the mineworkers of Great Britain.

William Vann's evening programme includes rarely heard songs by pupils Alan Bush, Geoffrey Bush and Richard Arnell alongside two major Ireland cycles; 'The Land of Lost Content' and 'Songs Sacred and...